Assessment of Population Needs by Normative Method: Romania 1989-2018

This article analyzes some concepts to argue why the quality of life in Romania is far from what was
desired in the early nineties. Its presents the normative method that helps us to validate the
consumption of the population by covering at minimum the essential goods and services necessary
for the individual, and his family, at home and in society. Next part presents us a dynamic of social
policy measures which fluctuates the main incomes of the population in the 1990-2018 time interval,
and their influence on consumption. The last part of the study concludes: what are the needs of the
population and to what extent they were satisfied, or not, within the time period studied. During the
period of time 1990-2018 the incomes of the various families with children could not keep up with the
price increases on the products and services on the market. This has resulted in time deterioration in
the quality of life of these families.